Shakspere Weighed in an Even Balance

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Page 4 We can recognise in that vocal stream the sweet music of the celestial spring,
and detect the graceful flow and sweetness of the songs of Zion, whose singers
are silent in the dust, but whose heavenly melodies will retain their freshness,
when ...

Page 13 Sweet are the uses of Adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous Wears
yet a precious jewel in his head.1 As You Like It, ii. 1. Affliction has a task as sweet As any cordial comfort.4 — Winter's Tale, v. 3. By Adversity men are tested,
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Page 16 We took sweet counsel together, and walked into the house of God in company.''
1 When love begins to sicken and decay, It usetb an enforced ceremony. There
are no tricks in plain and simple faith ; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, ...

Page 25 If I in act, consent, or sin of thought Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath
Which was embounded in this beauteous clay, Let hell want pains enough to
torture me ! King John, iv. 3. But it is in " Macbeth" that our Poet displays his
wonderful ...

Page 39 This is alluded to also in Shakspere — Hamlet, v., 2 : Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. And the expression "Abraham's bosom"
occurs more than once in our Poet, to designate the happy and eternal residence
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Page 63 - Setting endeavour in continual motion ; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience : for so work the honey bees ; Creatures, that, by a rule in nature, teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.

Page 60 - Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, — This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth...

Page 20 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark ! what discord follows ; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe...

Page 40 - And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in; A sure and safe one, though thy master miss'd it.

Page 28 - While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe, And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such, a woman oweth to her husband...

Page 19 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order : And therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other ; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad...

Page 85 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.

Page 14 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye.

Page 10 - You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are : And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing...